In
celebration of the 2003 centennial of powered flight, the Aerospace Industries
Association (AIA) has teamed with the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) to
sponsor the "Team America Rocketry Challenge," a rocket design and
launch contest for U.S. high school students.The five winning student teams will share a total prize pool of
approximately $50,000 in savings bonds.Their supervising teachers' schools will share $9,000 in cash.

The Challenge
involves designing, building, and flying a multi-stage model rocket weighing
less than 3.3 pounds at liftoff.The
payload requirements involve taking two raw eggs, remaining unbroken in flight,
and an electronic altimeter.During the
flight, the rocket must maintain, as close as possible, an altitude of 1500
feet. The fly-off competition will be held in Northern Virginia on April 12,
2003.

AIA
represents the nation's major manufacturers of commercial, military and
business aircraft, helicopters, aircraft engines, missiles, spacecraft, related
components, and other materials. The NAR is the nation's largest and oldest
non-profit organization for sport-rocketry consumers, focusing primarily on
education, public information, and the establishment of nationally recognized
safety standards for sport-rocket motors and sport-rocket flying.